Sentence examples for it was characteristic from inspiring English sources

Selden immediately wonders what Lily is doing there, and he reflects that "it was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions".

When the Lowry won a 2012 Peter Brook Empty Space award for work in its studio theatre, it was characteristic that he sent a colleague up to collect it.

It was characteristic of her indomitable diffidence.

It was characteristic of Brennan to use the word "joust".

It was characteristic of him that he revolutionized this professorship.

It was characteristic of him to state the fact in interviews with journalists.

It was characteristic of Hewitt that he was disappointed that he gave up even that much.

Many would say it was characteristic of that generation to simply remain quiet.

It was characteristic of Simenon to suspect that sexual liberation might not deliver everything it promised.

"He thought it was characteristic of how Mancunians responded to what he had to say.

"It was characteristic of you," prime minister Winston Churchill wrote to Duke, "to go up yesterday after the shocking accident".